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        Overview
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    <p>
        UncleGED is...
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        <li>GEDCOM Reader </li>
        <li>GEDCOM to HTML Converter </li>
        <li>GEDCOM Cataloging Tool </li>
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        NOT a character in a very funny 1960's sitcom... that was Uncle Jed Clampett, kin
        to the Bodine family... no relation.
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        One of the biggest hassles of maintaining my genealogy website (Gathering Leaves)
        over the past few years has been keeping the my web documentation in sync with my
        database. When I first started out I created many of the pages by hand. At that
        time I thought that I had reach the limit of what I might learn further about my
        family history. Oh, how wrong I was!
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        A few years ago I learned a lot about the branch of my maternal grandfather's family.
        Previously I had virtually no information on the family of my mother's grandfather.
        Thanks to a distant cousin I received a vast amount information on that branch of
        my family. Six months later I was still sifting through this information.
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        Also, I learned more about other branches and I kept my database up-to-date, but
        not (always) the webpages
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        It was very important to me that keep the documentation and the database up to date
        and in sync in order that I maintain accuracy and integrity of the data that I and
        others have so painstakingly collected over a vast number of years.
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        One trick that I learned a few years back was make use of different tools that allowed
        me to take a GEDCOM file exported from my database (FamilyTreeMaker v. 5) and convert
        that data into HTML formatted pages.
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        I've tried and tested a number tools:
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        <li>GED2HTML </li>
        <li>GED4WEB </li>
        <li>Progenitor </li>
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        They are all well written programs, but none of them output the data in a format
        that I was happy with.
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        That's when UncleGED came along. One Saturday morning I sat down and I decided to
        write my own GED-to-HTML converter. Being very realistic, I figured that this project
        would take me a number of weekends to complete....
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        ....I finished up on Sunday morning of that same weekend.
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